Likud Leads as Ra'am Surges in Israeli Election Vote Count
Translated & summarized from Now 14 by baba
The Likud party leads in Israel's 26th Knesset elections with 91% of votes counted, followed by Gadi Eisenkot's party. The Joint List is narrowly ahead of Naftali Bennett's party for third place. Ra'am has surged to 8 mandates, while parties led by Yoaz Hendel and Ofer Winter are below the electoral threshold. Final results are expected by November 4th.
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- Likud leads with 20.66% of votes counted, followed by Gadi Eisenkot's party at 16.21%.
- The Joint List is narrowly ahead of Naftali Bennett's party by 8,254 votes.
- Ra'am has surged to 8 mandates as vote counting continues.
- Yoaz Hendel and Ofer Winter's parties are currently below the electoral threshold.
- Official election results are expected to be published by November 4th.
With approximately 91% of votes counted for the 26th Knesset elections, the Likud party, led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, continues to hold the lead with 20.66% of the votes. Gadi Eisenkot's party follows with 16.21%. More than five million votes have been tallied, and the counting of double envelopes is ongoing, meaning final results could still change.
The race for third place is particularly close, with the Joint List party currently ahead of Naftali Bennett's party by a narrow margin of just 8,254 votes. The Joint List has secured 9.19% of the votes, while Bennett's party has 9.03%.
Other parties in the running include Yair Golan's Democrats with 6.52%, Ra'am with 6.06%, and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu with 5.94%. Following them are United Torah Judaism with 5.65%, Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit with 5.53%, and Shas with 5.30%.
Parties that appear to be falling short of the electoral threshold include Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism (running with the Identity party) at 4.70%. Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha's party has garnered 2.63%, and Ofer Winter's Am Israel party has received 1.60%, both remaining below the required 3.25% cutoff.
Several smaller lists, including Avi Maoz's Noam for Israel, also remain significantly below the threshold. The Central Elections Committee stated that official results will be published by Wednesday, November 4th, and the vote counts and Knesset seat allocations may still shift.
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